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MICHAEL A. MOGLINN, OF LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOB TO HIM- SELF AND S. GRAYBILL, OF SAME PLACE.

COMBINED DOOR-PLATE, BELL-PULL, AND MAIL-RECEIVER.

I SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.354,66, dated December 21, 1886.

7 Application filed May 25, 1886. Serial No. 203,220. (No model.)

To a whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MICHAEL ANTHONY IVICGLINN, of Lancaster, in the county of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Combined Door- Plate, Bell-Pull, and Mail-Receiver, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the annexed drawings, forming a part thereof, in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation. side elevation, partly in section.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures of the drawlngs.

The object of my invention is to provide a device which will serve as an ordinary doorplate, as a movable cover for the usual mailreceiving aperture in the door, and as a means for operating the doorbell. My invention consists in a plate having an oblong aperture corresponding with the mailreceiving aperture in the door, and provided with a pivoted spring-actuated cover-plate for covering the aperture of the base-plate and for operating the door-bell.

The base-plate A is provided with an oblong Fig. 2 is a aperture, B, which corresponds in width and length with the mail-receiving aperture B in the door 0; Above the aperture B is formed a ledge, a, extending the entire length of the plate. In an aperture formed in one end of the plate A, opposite the end of the slot B, is received a stud, b, projecting from the back of the cover-plate D. The stud b beyond the plate A is squared to receive a collar, 0, to which is secured aspiral spring, (I, which surrounds the stud b, and is attached to a plate, f, secured to the opposite side of the door. The stud b is rounded where it passes through the plate f, and is afterward squared to receive the apertured endof the arm E, which is secured on the stud b by a nut, turned on the threaded end of the stud.

The free end of the cover-plate D is provided with a thumbpiece, h, and to render the plate .symmetrical a similar piece is placed on the opposite end of the plate. The spiral spring (I is under continual strain, and tends to keep the cover-plate D over the aperture B and in contact with the ledge a.

The free end of the arm E is provided with an eye, '6, which is connected by awire, j,with any suitable door-bell. In the present case I have connected it with an ordinary doublestroke bell, F, which is in common use, and therefore needs no special description. I may connect the arm E with a door-bell of any other form, or I may arrange it to open and close an electric circuit for an electric bell.

The mail-receiving aperture 13 is opened by pressing down the cover-plate D, and the bell is rung by simply releasing the cover-plate, allowing it to fall back under the stress of the spring (1. entrance of rain or dust between the coverplate and the base-plate.

A name or number may be placed on the cover-plate D in .the usual way.

I am aware that it is not new to connect a bell with the hinged cover of a mail-receiving aperture; therefore I do not broadly claim this feature.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with the base-plate A, provided with the ledge a, of the cover-plate D, having the thumb-piece h and stud b, and arranged to swing in a vertical plane, the collar c, secured on the stud, the spring (I, attached to the collar, and the plate f, secured to the door and receiving the end of the spring (1, substantially as herein shown anc described. r

2. The combination, with the baseplate A, provided with the ledge a, of the cover-plate D, having the thumb-piece h and stud b, and arranged to swing in a vertical plane, the collar c, secured on the stud, the spring (Z, attached to the collar, the plate f, secured to The ledge a effectually prevents the 5 the door and receiving the end of the spring Witnesses:

J. W. BAUsMAN, D. E. BITNERZ 

